TACL Reference Manual

Built-In Functions and Variables
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Summary of Built-In Functions
Table 9-1. Built-In Functions (page 1 of 8)
Function Description
#ABEND Built-In Function
Immediately terminates a process
#ABORTTRANSACTION Built-In
Function
Aborts and backs out a transaction
#ACTIVATEPROCESS Built-In
Function
Returns process or process pair from suspended state
to ready state
#ADDDSTTRANSITION Built-In
Function (Super-Group Only)
Adds entry to daylight savings time transition table
#ALTERPRIORITY Built-In
Function
Changes execution priority of a process or process pair
#APPEND Built-In Function
Appends additional lines to a variable level
#APPENDV Built-In Function
Appends a line from one variable level to another
#ARGUMENT Built-In Function
Parses arguments to routines
#BACKUPCPU Built-In Function
Sets or changes the TACL backup CPU
#BEGINTRANSACTION Built-In
Function
Starts a new transaction
#BREAKPOINT Built-In Function
Sets or deletes _DEBUGGER breakpoint for a specific
variable level
#BUILTINS Built-In Function
Examines names of TACL built-in functions and
variables
#CASE Built-In Function
Chooses one out of a set of options
#CHANGEUSER Built-In
Function
Logs user on under different user ID
#CHARADDR Built-In Function
Converts line address to character address
#CHARBREAK Built-In Function
Inserts line break in variable at character address
#CHARCOUNT Built-In Function
Obtains number of characters in variable
#CHARDEL Built-In Function
Deletes characters from variable at character address
#CHARFIND Built-In Function
Locates text in variable, searching forward from
character address
#CHARFINDR Built-In Function
Locates text in variable, searching backward from
character address
#CHARFINDRV Built-In Function
Locates string in variable, searching backward from
character address
#CHARFINDV Built-In Function
Locates string in variable, searching forward from
character address
#CHARGET Built-In Function
Obtains copy of specified number of characters from a
variable
#CHARGETV Built-In Function
Copies specified number of characters from one variable
to another